pleasance
Example Sentences
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"What manner of man was this Ferdinando de' Medici who had converted his garden pleasance into a museum?"
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
The pleasance was all abloom with flowers, for the month was May, but the ladies in their gauzy robes of delicate rainbow hues were lovelier far than the favourites of Flora.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
But a mediæval knight went into his pleasance, to gather roses and hear the birds sing; or rode out hunting or hawking.
From Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things by John Ruskin
Still he partook a little of the rich repast which had been prepared, and feigned so long a false pleasance, that he almost became pleased in reality.
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
The summer, which you left for dead by mountain or sea-shore, stirs with lingering consciousness in the bland air of the great pleasance.
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
